My latest project is a holographic cat you can pet. 🐈! Read more
Recently I've been using Quizlet to record information I'm trying to learn. Quizlet rocks, but I forget to go back and study the flashcards after I make them. Yesterday I built a chrome extension that surfaces a flashcard from Quizlet [...] Read more
Becoming a fast expert in a new topic is still a big challenge. There are a lot of open resources available on the web, but finding, qualifying, and navigating them--let alone combining them into a self directed system--is a challenge. In the classroom, the syllabus plays that role. The syllabus is a learning map. There's a big opportunity to reinvent the syllabus for the internet. Read more
We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. First, apps inspire infrastructure. Then that infrastructure enables new apps. Platforms evolve from an iterative cycle of apps=>infrastructure=>apps=>infrastructure and are rarely built in an outside vacuum. Read more
It's been really fun learning about the crypto space while building Gravity and Middleman. As I've been working on these projects, I've been keeping a list of observations about what it's like to dev in the crypto space. Here [...] Read more
This weekend I built a tool called Gravity. The TLDR is that it's like Gravatar, but for Ethereum. If you want to skip ahead, you can go to gravity.cool and create your own Gravatar. Okay, more on Gravity: Right [...] Read more
In yesterday's episode of The Indicator, Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia buy their first CryptoKitty. You can listen to the episode here. Just the first step of creating a Coinbase account and buying ETH took [...] Read more
Exciting news! Middleman is a hosted wallet API and it goes into beta today. If you want to jump ahead and check it out, go here: middleman.cx. If you want to learn more, read ⬇. Web3 should be really [...] Read more
I’m oddly excited about solutions like CoinHive that make it feasible to mine cryptocurrencies from a browser. I think we are going to see a lot of distributed and light mining solutions crop up and that in a more mature [...] Read more